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Here's a version that supports video-mode-specific sub-sections in MiSTer.ini that can be used to override any configuration option. I'm much happier with this scheme. https://github.com/tsowell/Main_MiSTer/tree/ini-video-overrides Section names must follow the format "video=WIDTHxHEIGHT[@VREFRESH]". MiSTer will first look for an exactly...

Thanks very much. I've also now confirmed that the VESA 2.0 modes of Duke3D work with these settings. If anyone else is aware of other games which may now work with VBE 2.0 support, it would be great to test these too. notice any speed differences? when in game you can type "dnrate" and it will show the frame rate. Some are going to be a...

I could just try but I ask anyway, as I'm still waiting for my USB board. Can you open up the vhd and replace the shareware version of a game with the full version? And evrything still works? I know you are updating the 300 pack but I have limited sd space so this would be easier. Yes, if the developers of the games made the games work that way. Y...

Karmeck wrote: ↑Sat Mar 12, 2022 9:40 pm So here is a request disguised as a question.

Reading the comments here, dosmid appears to have a relation with the dos game front-end:

https://youtu.be/JseqLS2wCsY

Will dosmid be included when you update the top 300 with the front-end?

Yes

Drexl wrote: ↑Sat Mar 12, 2022 7:09 pm I think there's some confusion here. Apparently the OP has disc images of games in a format called VCD (Virtual CD). I also thought this was about Video CDs, but it seems that isn't the case.

OHHHH. Not Video CDs. The op has images that are in VCD "format". Yeah, I expect that will never be supported.

I have a huge collection of VCD files. Will these be supported too maybe in the future or should i start converting them? I could probably write something that extracts and then compiles them into STR format and injects them into a CHD with the player. Put a couple of them on archive or get them to me somewhow. flynnsbit@gmail.com Thank you for th...

TwinX wrote: ↑Fri Mar 11, 2022 6:05 pm I have a huge collection of VCD files. Will these be supported too maybe in the future or should i start converting them?

I could probably write something that extracts and then compiles them into STR format and injects them into a CHD with the player. Put a couple of them on archive or get them to me somewhow.

flynnsbit@gmail.com

I wonder if the Magic-NS and a Brook MD Mini Super Converter would work? They work the other way into the Egret II mini when using other controllers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co2QUdidKgE

yeah that is a good thing. Sorry I forgot the Zero doesn't have analog audio... So probably specific SNAC port and even more specifically the i2S lines as i2C is how the display is getting data.
https://github.com/dwhinham/mt32-pi/wik ... ace-pinout
So you need to figure out what is going to with the i2s pins on this diagram.

Yeah good to test on the 6.1 to be sure. If it came from misteraddons it should be solid. I don't have one to test against. Do try the pwm mode and see if you get audio out of the pi itself with that setting set. In this scnerio you should only hear the MIDI sounds from the pi as it wont mix the FM sound back like the i2s option does. That should f...

I am using this MT32-pi --> https://misterfpga.co.uk/product/mister-fpga-mt32-pi-hat-v2-1 And this is the power supply I am using --> https://misterfpga.co.uk/product/mister-fpga-power-supply I'm using a Raspberry Pi 3B+, and it's the only one I can spare. I have two other Pi 4s, but they are essential parts of my home network, so I can't disconne...

try a different resistor or temporarily no resistor at R1 to test, or did you go cheap and get your MiSTer IO board from AliExpress or somewhere that said "Manual Welding"? If so, your analog board and the USER IO port is missing parts. EDIT: nevermind, I see them in your picture, but what are the blue lines going to that you have soldere...

Hey there, I absolutely love this pack and the work done to it. However, i'm having real bad performance issues on some games and i'm not sure if tha'ts on purpose due to the MISTer or if I bungled something. IN particular is Grand Prix II. In the menus the game runs flawless but once in game it runs at ~5fps. This happens with several games also ...

Super star level of effort to get this working! I'm excited to go through the process. Thank you for giving some love to the AO486 core. I know a lot of people these days steer clear of changes to it because of how full it is and how long it takes to build so a double thank you for your passion here.

ALT-F5 when you get back to TDL will also show the last screen from the console so you can see the error message.

Oh I forgot about that.

I have found a solution for fixing NTFS conversion and have submitted the PR for it here: https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Main_MiSTer/pull/557 Note that it's actually quite useful to keep the drive as FAT so that you can access it from DOS (maybe you need to do some troubleshooting, or copy something in from MisterFS). However, this provides you t...

You can create an empty .img file like USB_Floppy.img, add that to your AO486 folder. Then on the linux side run where /dev/sda is what shows up when you plug in your usb floppy drive. Then just mount usb_floppy in the core with a floppy disk in. I had some buffer issues but it worked.

T300 pack has some volume scripts built in for now. Under --Utilities at the top of the list and there are volume scripts in there. You can add those references to the run scripts of each game. These only work for mt32 mode. like in 1_START.bat for the games you wanted to pull the volume down on for MT-32: @echo off call E:\UTILS\DUMP.EXE E:\GAMES\...

I wondered if it might be useful to change more than just the video mode based on different core video modes, so I'm looking at moving the configuration into sub-sections of MiSTer.ini, so you can do stuff like: [video=320x200] video_mode=640,16,96,48,400,12,2,35,25175,0,1 vscale_mode=2 [video=720x400@70.0] video_mode=720,15,108,51,400,11,2,32,283...

Yeah, that's a really good idea.

akeley wrote: ↑Sat Feb 19, 2022 7:33 pm Alright then, I did edit/save the ini in ao486, then dragged it back to Windows and now it's working. I'd used the standard Windows Notepad to edit it before.

Switch to Notepad++ to save yourself headaches in the future. Glad we found it.

Sorgelig wrote:

@Sorgelig
Do you have the source for the Windows98 framebuf.drv you built for AO486 available for @alexoughton to use? See above ^

A quick update. To help me pinpoint the problem, i moved the vhd images used by ao486 to the sd card. These are not the Top300 images, but a fresh install I made of MS-DOS 6.22. Moreover, I did a fresh install of Ultima 7 serpent island from original floppy images. Well, still no luck. Same issue, I see the screen change resolution and then I'm, b...

dosbox-x_BIqVNUZQ8L.gif Do this, you edited your INI using an editor that which changed all the line feeds from CRLF to LF. just open the mymenu.ini in dos with edit and then save it. then try again. Simply opening it with edit in dosbox and saving will be enough to fix it. Yours before, and after saving with EDIT. notepad++_Z744l0YUky.gif Curious...

try LFN=n
see if it fixes it

Maybe try the Trident Video bios and see if it makes a difference. There are maybe 10 or so bios files that actually function with the core from the VGA bios back from PCem rom pack here: https://github.com/86Box/roms/releases/tag/20220216 Not sure if they are "100% compatible" but they do function. Any/most of the 32KB ones will at least...

I'm happy to report that sorgelig and I have been discussing the changes. They got simplified to just a single number being updated and were merged! The new BIOS version is now released: https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/ao486_MiSTer/blob/master/releases/boot0.rom Update: Aaaand reverted again. Sorgelig realized this will actually conflict with the ...

Some of those games might require a different memory manager to launch so you can always try the other three options on boot. Priority of which to test are the order they are in the menu.

(Self promotion) AO486 PC Core -- 100 Games in the Shareware Pack, all free and you don't need a memory stick for the MiSTer to use it... https://github.com/flynnsbit/DOS_Sharew ... ag/v0.1.20

I guess I should add the OG Shareware version of Wordle to the pack https://dosgames.com/game/wordle/